Alan Tyers

3 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers

This writer once spent an evening in a snooker hall in King's Cross with O'Sullivan and White for some joint interview caper or other, and very enjoyable it was too. White, as we bade farewell, pulled me aside with a hushed offer of an intense-sounding side quest teased with the following cryptic clue: "a mate of ours is in prison because the government's put the bad arm on him" (no, not sure) "so we need someone from a proper paper to write something".

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers

He had a hugely relatable backstory about his mum and dad working factory night shifts, three jobs, sacrificing everything to give their only child his start, brilliantly sold in that superb Nike TV advert alongside Tiger Woods. He puts me in mind of Wayne Rooney and Sir Andy Murray in that he has simultaneously achieved an enormous amount but critics had nevertheless felt the right to damn him with faint praise or claim that he should have won more.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers

One defers to the experts when they say that fings ain't what they used to be, so it was lucky for racing that the Mullins father-and-son story provided a much better narrative than yet another routine win for the Closutton superpower. ITV's coverage on Saturday began with Brough Scott setting the scene and saying, don't worry about what it once was, celebrate it for what it is today. And the commentary of the race itself remains as it always has been: a complete nightmare.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers

On BBC1 at the same time, Women's Super League football as Manchester City played Chelsea. What can you really say? It is good that it exists. It is right that it's on the national broadcaster. You do not have to watch it. The player who scored City's opener, a dribbling shot from inside the box that the keeper watched roll across the line, marked the moment with her take on Cristiano Ronaldo's famous (famously annoying) leap and wide leg plant "Siu!" celebration.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers

The pre-match programming managed to stoke up the excitement while also outlining some broad tactical or sporting points but also highlighted the probably unsolvable problem for rugby on the BBC: trying to be all things to all persons. Gabby said: "We don't need to hype this one up but we'll do it anyway" and the montage began. Classic Eddie Butler territory, England in Cardiff.